Word: flemming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flem David Sampson, Governor of Kentucky since Jan. 1, 1928 assumed among other duties that of seeing that Kentucky school children got new schoolbooks. He and the State textbook commission were soon flooded by 25 schoolbook publishers with sample copies. Partly because he is the only Republican high official in his administration, partly because his opponents were ignorant of publishing practice, Governor Sampson was indicted last month for receiving "gifts." Seven members of the textbook commission and all the sample-sending publishers were also indicted, it being known that the commissioners had sold the sample books they received for sums...
...other Insull companies ''to pay for option, engineering reports, license and rights." Out also went a $250,000 pledge by the power company to the Kentucky State Park Commission to develop the property about Cumberland Falls into a park. Kentucky's only Republican high official. Governor Flem D. Sampson, had engineered the Cumberland Falls deal, had signed the contract. Kentucky's Demo-cratic Attorney-General James William Cammack cried tritely: "What a crime . . . that the rights of Kentucky might be bartered away for a mess of pottage...
...Kentucky's Governor Flem D. Sampson last week signed death warrants for two murderers, to be executed in September. At the same time he issued a proclamation calling attention to their crimes, their punishment, which he ordered read once a week in every prison and jail in the State. It began: "May the Lord have mercy upon the souls of these unfortunate men who are about to pay the extreme penalty for their transgressions...
...acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky to get a Federal power licence, promising in return a 6,000-acre State park with highways and a bridge. Governor Flem D. Sampson, Congresswoman Langley and Congressman Robison of Kentucky, all Republicans, all testified pro-Insull at the hearing last week. Onetime (1924-27) Governor William Jason Fields of Kentucky, Democrat, was there to decry the Insull scheme as unsightly, the du Pont plan as preservation of natural beauty. The du Pont-Insull...
...Raskob replied by releasing the "red hot stuff." He put on display in Manhattan a collection of anti-Catholic propaganda, including a quotation from Republican Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky that Smith would "destroy the churches and schools...